Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-01
Expert lpl Topographers.

|
23rd, with degree of malignancy and
acrimonious virulence, characteristic
OF that caustic aspirant for doubtful
journalistic fame, hurls with bitter and
crushing force at the patient and for
bearing scribe Of the CHRONICLE, solid
I blocks Of the most scathing and rancor
Gus invective, breaking unquestionably
the record Of local aspersion in the his
tory of Black Hills journalism These
super-angeic mud manipulators who
are not confined to Websterian limits
coin terms of their own to convey 4
clearer conception of the degree o
suspenseless anticipation" experienced
while awaiting the opportunity to bur,
tis in sarcastic slime. We are held, b,
1 this dual embodiment of indubitabls
journalistic inconsistency, to be, "thc
great and wonderful kicker, the envlou'
demonstrator OF prejudicial impulses
sarcastic, indefatigably dominant, ir
rascible," &c, &c, whatever all this may
imply. Our name is publicly Haunted
| in the immaculate and extensively cir
| culated columns Of the News as the
synonym of sarcasm, and envious
demonstration Of prejudicial impulses
and for what? Simply because we took
occasion to define a typographical pro,
position contained i'll that paper of De-
| cember I'd, wherein the writer betrayed
a degree Of ignorance, rarely encounter.
ed within the pale of local journalism
Our deductions, which were based upon
the latest and most accurate map Of Gus
ter county yet published, were irrefut.
able, and the contradiction upon the par,
Of our splenetic contemporary can only
be accounted for on the grounds OF
wilful misrepresentation, or the absence
of a map Of Custer county in the office
Of the News.
In that paper Of the date above men
toned appears the following with re-
ference to a plan proposed by the topo
graphical expert Of that journal for the
re-districting of Custer county:
"No more equal division can be made
than by drawing north and south line
from a point five or ST.: miles west OF
Buffalo Gap on the south and running
due north TO the north line. Let all the
portion west of this line be merged into
one district. Squaw creek would then
be thrown into the eastern portion.
L.
line from point three or four miles
north Of French creek from the other
dividing line and run east TO the eastern
limit Of the county, all south Of that line
TO be in one district and north in an.
other. Such u division would come a.
near equalizing the present voting popu
lation as could be made. French creek
and few miles north and Buffalo Gap
are then thrown together, and Squaw.
Battle and Spring creeks in another dis.
trict."
The utter inconsistency Of such a
plan of division, was opposed by us in
wit:
"Now, ifthe News proposes to divide
the two eastern districts three or iuur
miles north of point where French
creek crosses the west boundary line of
the two districts, the northeastern dis
trict, in which is located lIermOsa ana
Spring creek, could very consistently be
deemed q shoe string district, as il
would be barely five lDiles IN width and
thirty-siX miles long, while the south
eastern district, in which Buffalo Gap
and Fairburn is located would be twen-
ty.one miles wide"
The above adverse comment upon
their long contemplated and devoutly
coveted scheme called forth the wither-
ing TRADE of acute abuse contained in
their issue Of December 23d, which is
above referred to; the preparation of
which evidently required their joint
mental efforts for the period of thirteen
days, and which, in addition to its
voluminous and variegated phases of
vituperation, contained the following
sophistical and subtitle statement:
"He Intentionally misleads when he
says according to lines drawn by us but
five miles in width would be left for the
northeast district, while in fact ] | miles
wide would be left for that district"
Now, let us glance at the map of Gus
ter county, with view Of determining
the relative width of the two eastern
districts, and we will readily find that
the distance from "a point four miles
north Of French creek from the other
dividing line" is barely three and half
miles from the north boundary line OF
the county.
Now, in case the writer's referred to
the town Of French Creek (Fairburn)
and not the creek itself, six and a hall
miles would be the extreme limit of the
width of the Hermosa district, which
any ordinary school boy may determine
at once. But we hold the News to what
its words ,mply, which limits the width
of the northern district to three and a
half miles, which would leave an area
Of twenty-five miles in width in the
Gap district, which would not only en-
brace all of French creek, but would
contain six miles of Squaw creek and
thirteen miles of Battle creek, all OF
which is fallaciously set down as being
in the northern district under the pre-